A unit of length equal to 220 yards

Usage examples of furlong.

I could only imagine the appeal that the Furlongs would have held for him, perhaps not only for the ambitious and avaricious reasons my friends and I had discussed just a few hours before while we sat on the dock, but as part of a far more human desire to be a member of a real family.

Let vs returne then to the huge Pyramides, standing vpon a strong and sound plynth or foure square foote, fourteene paces in heigth, and in length sixe furlongs, which was the foundation and bottom of the weightie pyramides, which I perswaded my selfe was not brought from any other place, but euen with plaine labour and workemanship hewen out of the selfe same mountaines, and reduced to this figure and proportion in his owne proper place.

Tryin tae compose masel, ah start telling her the story about Topsy n me playing cairds oan the Last Furlong bus, going to see Hearts away.

From this Mitylene some twenty furlongs, there lay a Mannor of a certain rich Lord, the most sweet and pleasant prospect under all the Eyes of Heaven.

Also rusting oil drums, red polythene cans of chain-oil and furlongs of steel cable lying like a fossilised snake beside the road.

Soon after this, a furlong way or two, He privily hath told all his intent Unto a man, and to his wife him sent.

Furlong County General Hospital for the occasion, and Rachmed Baya Bam helped roll him down the ramps in his wheel chair.

After zigging through a bombproof furlong of roof, he was dropping into a large twilit cave.

Two more miles were done, and scarce seven furlongs from them they saw the broad mouth of the bridge, while the towers of Emesa beyond seemed so close that in this clear air they could discern the watchmen outlined against the sky.

The Papago kid scampered ahead for a few furlongs, and then suddenly vanished sideways into a thick clump of jumping cholia that common sense said no naked human hide had any business in.

A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-color, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.

Madoc went ashore with hunters, expecting the cattlelike beasts to be easy prey, but they were so wary and swift that he could not get within a furlong of them, and could only admire them for their powerful and shapely forms, and note that they were shadowed by packs of wolves.

Her willing workers had the mythical faithful darkies of the Dixie that never was beat by a furlong at anticipating wishes.

Longarm agreed they were at least a couple of furlongs east of the line, and explained they were looking for a spread that branded with either an inverted sombero or a cabeza de vaca chongo.

There were strong, well-trained muscles under those silken tunics, hard bodies that saw furlongs of patrolling every day.